He’s been well above 200 mph, usually in the month of May on the backstretch of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the country’s most recognizable and well-known race track.

They are America’s fastest couple, if not in the world. This week, they can be found in Long Beach after a weekend where they competed in two Western states. Last month they spent some vacation time together in the Caribbean.

Meet the marriage of Graham Rahal and Courtney Force.

He’s an IndyCar Series driver and winner of six races (five since 2015, including the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana that season) in his career. At 19 years, 93 days in 2008, he became the youngest driver to finish first in an IndyCar race at St. Petersburg, Fla. He drives for team co-owned by his father, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal; former late-night talk show host David Letterman; and businessman Mike Lanigan.

The couple was married in 2015 at Dos Pueblos Ranch in Santa Barbara. Courtney Force drives an NHRA Funny Car, was third in the points in 2017 and has won eight times since starting her professional career in 2012, the most by a female driver in sanctioning body history. The 29-year-old is the daughter of 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and drives for his team.

Her older sister Brittany is the defending NHRA Top Fuel dragster champion. Additionally, brother-in-law Robert Hight, a fellow Funny Car competitor, is the president of John Force Racing.

As is their custom whenever schedules agree, they’ll be together this weekend in Long Beach, where Rahal will compete in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Neither is a stranger in the pit area. Immediately after his Saturday night race in Phoenix, where he finished ninth, Rahal flew to Las Vegas where Courtney was competing in the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, where she advanced to the final round and finished third.

Rahal is currently fourth in the IndyCar standings, 14 behind Phoenix winner Josef Newgarden. He was second in the season-opener in. St. Petersburg, Fla.

Courtney is third in the NHRA points battle, 49 behind leader Matt Hagan and 28 from second-place Jack Beckman.

Both Graham and Courtney have to work to schedule time together, and it’s not easy.

“This year with the new IndyCar stuff, we’re testing a lot more,” Rahal said. “A lot more days on the road already, so it’s going to be a little bit different.”

Courtney is in total agreement, noting that with all the travel and competition, time spent apart is hard on their personal lives.

“We make it work,” she said. “Good thing we both love racing.”

Graham: “The biggest thing is it requires a tremendous amount of time on the road, and it’s got it goods and bads. I try to always pay as much attention and attend as many races as I can, but it becomes pretty difficult.”

It was emotionally hard earlier this season when Courtney’s Funny Car exploded at the season-opening Winterationals at Pomona, with Rahal in attendance.

“When it’s your wife, in particular, it strikes a chord more than you can ever imagine,” Rahal said. “It’s hard for me not to overthink the situation. Most people never understand how it feels.

“In those things, when it goes wrong, the driver in many ways is not a driver and becomes a passenger, and I hate that. I hate that. It’s a hard thing to see.”

Rahal will admit he wishes NHRA would adopt some of the Indy car safety features.

“It’s hard for me to stop thinking about all the safety elements they could use that we have, like carbon fiber tubs,” he said. “We spend a lot of time bouncing ideas of each other, like what’s the safest foam to be used.

“I want those cars to be as safe as possible for her.”

In that regard, Courtney is a fan of a canopy, such as Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Car drag racers have recently employed to protect their heads.

“I don’t like people running near me,” she said. “I like to stay in my own lane.”

They have been together since 2013, when Courtney invited Graham to the Route 66 Nationals in Joilet, Ill. However, their first “real” date was in 2013 when Force attended the IndyCar Series finale in Fontana.

“The first attraction was I thought he was very handsome,” Courtney recently said. “I realized how our lives were very similar.

“Living in the shadows of our dads and following in their footsteps, you don’t find a lot of people who can relate to something like that.”

Graham, who in 2007 became the second-youngest driver to compete in the Indy 500, appreciates the fact his wife can relate to his profession.

“There are only a handful of people in the world who could understand the pressure I have,” he said.

Based on their first exchange, initiated by Courtney, Graham assumed she was outgoing, like her famous father.

Funny Car winner John Force (left) celebrates with his daughter Courtney after defeating her in the finals at the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motorspeedway Sunday October 30, 2016 while Antron Brown clinched his third Top Fuel title. (Will Lester-SCNG/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

“Her dad’s very loud, very overwhelming,” Graham said. “So I kind of expected her to be that same way.

“She wasn’t what I expected,” he added. “She’s probably the most shy human being I’ve ever met,” although Graham did concede Courtney “becomes a different person” at the racetrack, where she is, he said, “in her element.”

Being around a famous father is nothing new for Rahal.

“It’s different but I also grew up a racer who was the class of his field for his career,” said Rahal. “But around the Force family, I’m the outsider. I’m the one person in this family who doesn’t have John sign my paycheck, so it’s a little different.”

Although Graham and the elder Force have a short history, they are familiar with one another.

A popular story that has made the rounds in both racing series ends with this exchange between the pair.

Force: “If you ever split up with my daughter, there will be a hundred men lined up to marry her.”

Lou Brewster is a nationally recognized motorsports journalist who has staffed NASCAR and NHRA events since 1969. Has also staffed high school football, in five different states, since 1967. Has won several national awards in writing and breaking news.